Hi,
I would like to declare this the NUL-est thread ever, and would like to thank you
NUL-experts for
your NUL-help.
Seriously I've now learnt how to delete those pesky undeletable windows files namely
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
or delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)
And also the conundrum t
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Larry Hall
> Sent: 22 July 2004 03:01
> You can use '.' in place of '?'.
[ Insert here quick discussion of difference between a UNC path to the local
host's redirector and a softlink in the root of the object namespace
hierarchy to t
Hi,
I would like to declare this the NUL-est thread ever, and would like to thank you
NUL-experts for
your NUL-help.
Seriously I've now learnt how to delete those pesky undeletable windows files namely
DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
or delinvfile.exe (google for this utility)
And also the conundrum t
I just use a freeware tool...
http://www.purgeie.com/delinv.htm
Trevor
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At 01:50 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:30 -0400, wrote:
>
>>At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>>>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
>>>
>>>
>
> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 09:58:37PM +, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>I've been using this:
>
>Interesting. I would have booted Linux and removed 'nul' with its
>tools. :)
Hmm. I would have taken a very tiny magnet, pried open the cover of
the hard drive, and run the magnet over the part of the pla
> I've been using this:
Interesting. I would have booted Linux and removed 'nul' with its tools. :)
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> While it's not hard to delete the rouge "nul" files, it is a recent change
> to cygwin that allows them to be created at all.
>
> 1.5.9 seemed to treat "NUL" in the normal windows way (equivalent of
> /dev/null), so didn't create these files.
>
> 1.5.10
While it's not hard to delete the rouge "nul" files, it is a recent change
to cygwin that allows them to be created at all.
1.5.9 seemed to treat "NUL" in the normal windows way (equivalent of
/dev/null), so didn't create these files.
1.5.10 changed so Cygwin no longer recognizes windows specia
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:05:05 +0100, wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
>> Sent: 21 July 2004 18:51
>
>> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
>> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>
>> >>>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
>
>
At Wednesday, July 21, 2004 1:51 PM, zzapper wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:30 -0400, wrote:
>
>> At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
>
> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
> which I cannot delete from Cyg o
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
> Sent: 21 July 2004 18:51
> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
> >>>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
> >>no luck
> >>
> >>C:\inetpub\wwwdev\www.planet.com>d
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:28:30 -0400, wrote:
>At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
>>
>>
I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
Hilfe mich!
>>>
>>
>>>
>>>DEL \\.\c:\s
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
> Sent: 21 July 2004 18:33
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
> >> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
> >> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
> >>
> >> Hilfe mich!
> >
>
> >
> >DEL
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:26:41 -0700, wrote:
Eric I tried
#!/usr/bin/env perl
my $filename='nul';
if (unlink $filename) {
print "Removed $filename.\n";
} else {
warn "Can't unlink $filename: $!";
}
Said it had deleted file but that was lie!!
zzapper (vim, cygwin, wiki & zsh)
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At 01:32 PM 7/21/2004, you wrote:
>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
>
>
>>>
>>> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
>>> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>>>
>>> Hilfe mich!
>>
>
>>
>>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
>>
>>cheers,
>> DaveK
>
>no luck
>
>C
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:14:45 +0100, wrote:
>>
>> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
>> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>>
>> Hilfe mich!
>
>
>DEL \\.\c:\somedir\nul
>
>cheers,
> DaveK
no luck
C:\inetpub\wwwdev\www.planet.com>del nul
The filename,
I've been using this:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
die "This program is only useful on Cygwin.\n"
unless ($^O eq "cygwin");
my $filename = shift;
$filename =~ s(/nul$)()i;
$filename = qx(realpath $filename); chomp $f
> -Original Message-
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of zzapper
> Sent: 21 July 2004 17:13
> Hi,
>
> I recently seem to be leaving nul files around my file system
> which I cannot delete from Cyg or Win
>
> Hilfe mich!
http://www.google.com/search?q=rm+delete+nul+com+file+site:cygwin.c
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